Petunia's Eyes

[Tandra]

No: HPFGUIDX 169833

 "karen" wrote:

 do we know who 
> is older- Petunia or Lily?
> 
> Ok so let me make a leap and say that Lily and Petunia are not 
> related by blood (as others have suggested to me). Petunia hates her 
> sister and let me propose why.
> 
> Imagine a muggle family- a young man, a woman, and their adorable 
> daughter (Petunia). Now for whatever reason, they decide to adopt 
> another child- Lily. Petunia is now not the only child and is angry 
> about having to share her parents' attention with another. Quite 
> typical for children. Now time goes by and her sister becomes
favored and Petunia is still jealous. Then, Lily is found to be a
witch and her parents are so proud. Well that is just it for Petunia!
She is enraged with her sister and jealous like crazy. Now, her sister
is murdered and the time comes for her to raise Harry as her own. She
is going to do exactly the oposite of what her parents did to their
little new comer (Lily). She is going to mistreat Harry not only
because he is her sister's son but also because she does not want her
son to feel the way she did growing up. Now what are your thoughts on
this? I have gotten responces from others saying that then there would
be no blood protection at no. 4 then if Petunia and Lily were not
blood related. However, someone else said, "At the end of 'Will and
Won't' in HBP, Petunia looks 'oddly flushed' when DD is talking about
the blood protection. " Interesting... maybe she knows that there is
no blood relation with her and Lily... Thoughts please...


TKJ replies:
I think that DD would of known the family dynamic. He would of known
if they were blood related or not. Why I think this I'm not all too
sure, but there had to be an eye kept on the house of some sort no?
Then why would they have known Lilly had magical powers?

The theory I had come up with a while ago is that they are fraternal
twins. They were close until they were going to go off to a good
(secondary?) school, that Petunia was all proud about going to and
Lilly got her letter for Hogwarts. This made her parents proud and
they fumbled all over Lilly as Petunia said, making her horribly
jealous and bitter. 

Or maybe Lilly was always the favored twin and Petunia got into a
better school than her and was reveling in it. She was finally the
better one then arrives the letter from Hogwarts. IDK it's just my
theory. Feel free to pick it apart.

TKJ